Bent County register., 1887-08-06
DR.. E. P. Rice.
Physician and Surgeon.
onice over City Drns Store. North side.
LAMAR. - COLORADO
From the Yuma asun."


may be safely said to be an assured
fact. The rain Saturday afternoon
and night was one of the best rains
that ever visited this country, and
will prove of inestimable value To the
agrieulturists. Away back in The
cleaning of the twilight of eternity
there may have been a lingering
doubt in the minds of some of that
Eastern Colorado would not prove to
be an agricultural country, but those
doubts are now removed.
Sod corn seems TO be doing extra
well in this vicinity, the stalk does
not grow so large as in other Sec
tions but the ears are prodigious for
the size of the stalk and are often too
heavy for it bearing it down until
the ear either brakes it off or rests
upon the grounds. This is not a
"fish story" but demonstrated fact.
This will be obviated as soon as our
ground becomes old and produce a
large stalks, but then, old ground
will produce proporticnateTy Larger
ear, and in that case-wc give 1t up.
-''Vilas Democrat"
Says ex- Governor John L. Routt, of
Colorado 81 am glad to see men
finding homes on the range, and
say it as 2 cattleman. Begrudge
them the homestead? No, sir! 1
say welcome to them. When man
wants the land the herd must go.
Whenever it is a struggle between
man and bull, l am for the man.
don't believe, anyway. that it will re-
duce the cattle trade OF Colorado TO
have the range reduced. Illinois has
more cattle than Colorado. believe
when Colorado becomes state of
farms, there will be more cattle pro-
duced than now. But that don't
make any difference. Tam for tho
settler as against the herd.
Saloons are now closed on Sunday
ipIamar, Colorado. There would
'be lot of lonesome fellows in the
place if the same thing was done
here-"Raton Range"
There are no back door to our sa-
looms on Sunday, either. If man
gets snake bit he has to go to the
beer garden oyer mile from town.
Several of our citizens who came
here early in the spring have nice,
thrifty gardens growing and will be
well repaid for their time and trouble.
-"Vilas Democrat
The little town of Lamar raised in
twenty-four hours 50, 500 to pay for
advertising the--town, and vicinity in
Eastern and other, papers. Enter
prise like this will tel, in favor of
any place which exhibits it. Lamar
has set an example which Denvcc
and other cities of the state might
well afford to follow. There ought
to be great awakening in Colorado
in favor of advertising the state in
the East.-"Denyer Republican"
The commissioners are in daily re-
ceipts of petitions throughout the
county asking for new roads, which
fact indicates that Bent county is
rapidly settling up by eastern immi-
grafton. For the information of
those interested we will state that
the laws passed by the last legisls-
ture provides that the commissioners
shall appoint-t two roadyiewers and
that one member of-the board of
commissioners shall act as the third.
-'Las Animas Leader"
Owing to the increasing immgra.
tion from the East it is difficult to
cast the political complexion of Bent
county at the approaching fall elee-
ton. For the past year there has
been steady and uninterrupted in
crease of population throughout east
ern Colorado and while it is not def
nitely known, it IS thought by many
sagaclous politicians of Bent county
that there have more republicans en-
tered our state than there have dem
ocrats. BE this rs it may one thing
is certain that the vote polled this
fall will be unusually large and will